Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dunce in their race for a degree. Aside from the vociferous backing of the Harkness Hoot, the two-degree system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils...
Whoever conceived "Manhattan Melodrama" showing at the State this week, evidently desired a rest from the arduous tasks of producing distinguished films. Possibly it was the title which suggested the dramatic possibilities which the melting pot of the world possesses. At any rate, the producer must have had a grand time concocting this extravaganza of human emotions...
...took the Administration five arduous days to effect this quadruple saving. The American Federation of Labor was determined to force a showdown on capturing the automobile industry. The industry was equally determined on a showdown to keep out the A. F. of L. (TIME, March 26). Such were the makings for a great strike. Last week with the strike's zero hour only 16 hours away President Roosevelt summoned both sides to Washington...
...reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City...
...very dispassionately. It is time to stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen to twenty...